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Yeah I can add 1 real anecdote - my lawyer for my family member’s estate suggested completely ignoring the timeshare and just letting that past of the estate go.

I have no idea what happens with the actual physical location but at least from the beneficiary’s perspective it seemed fine to just ignore it.

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There is no physical property linked to a timeshare. It's a /share/ in physical property. Nothing is going derelict, because the management company will probably just "mint" another share to sell to a new victim.

This is exactly what my lawyer told me when I "inherited" a timeshare. I never signed a contract and that I should just stop paying. We tried to sell the timeshare first, but that was as much of a scam as buying one. I read somewhere a joke that it's the same scummy people selling you the timeshares during the day and moonlighting as agents to help people get rid of timeshares at night.

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